Posted on 09/02/2019 2:39:10 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Gov. Kay Ivey joined executives of DaikyoNishikawa US (DNUS) and local leaders at a groundbreaking event to officially launch construction on the auto supplier’s $110 million manufacturing plant in North Alabama.
The DNUS facility, which will produce plastic automotive parts for the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing U.S.A. (MTMUS) assembly plant, will employ approximately 380 people at full production.
The groundbreaking ceremony was held at the site on the MTMUS campus where construction crews are poised to begin work on DNUS’ first U.S. manufacturing plant.
“I’m proud to welcome another great Japanese company, DaikyoNishikawa, to Sweet Home Alabama, and I know that together we will build a lasting partnership,” Ivey said. “Today marks another pivotal moment for Huntsville as it becomes the next vital production hub for the global auto industry.”
(Excerpt) Read more at alabamanewscenter.com ...
Gonna be a whole lotta culture clash there, at least initially
Huntsville has hosted rocket scientists for decades.
While it may shock some...Huntsville is becoming this magnet for business operations to relocate into. Going from 20,000 in 1950, to around 200,000 where it is today. There are already people calculating on 250,000 by 2030.
How so? Are you familiar with the area/industry/people in the Huntsville area?
I don’t know. There are a ton of Korean supplier plants in UCLA - the Upper Corner of Lower Alabama, the I-85 corridor from the GA state line (and the huge Kia assembly plant just across it in GA) down to Auburn-Opelika. I’ve seen Korean types lunching with locals in a meat-and-two place and getting along quite well. I have seen a good KBBQ yet, but I’m not down there much and haven’t looked.
Have you even been to Alabama?
Correction, I haven’t seen a good KBBQ yet.
No, no. Several auto construction companies are already down the I-85 route south of Atlanta, across the border towards Auburn, and down I65 towards Mobile south of Montgomery.
If North Alabama can tolerate von Braun bringing in rocket scientists, they can tolerate a few car dealers.
Shhhh - we don’t want anyone to know what a great place Alabama is.
Alabama already has a Honda, Mercedes, and a Hyundai plant there. Add to that parts companies, and the state has become an automobile manufacturing hub.
I have noticed over the last 30 years most of these plants locate far far away from the UAW’s great lands of utopia.
I have noticed over the last 30 years most of these plants locate far far away from the UAW’s great lands of utopia.
Yup. it's always tough being the first foreign manufacturer building a plant in the Huntsville area...
Those Nips are so difficult to get along with....
/ SARCASM
I am a home boy, and I gotta say this.
Alabama has its weirdness, but it is a fantastic place. It has its own way but it is a good one. I grew up there, and spent the first 23 years of my life there, and then returned for a few years.
My observations, the bad first:
It is profoundly self conscious about being unhip and uncool in the eyes of the snooty elite, which leads to some really painful attempts to ape contemporary culture and broadcast the message “hey, I am not like all these hillbillies.” The arts community especially embarrasses itself with its cloying fawning attempts to ingratiate itself with the trendies, but the BEST art comes from people who embrace, even while they laugh at, what the Drive By Truckers called “the Southern thang.” I reference DBT because they were a fantastic artists.....that is, before DBT got woke and Patterson Hood became a Taylor Swift wannabee, and moved to Portland.
The religious sector (Alabama is still bible belt, though that is dying, as it is all over the west) still has a lot of the virtue signalling pseudobiblical morality stuff... I was there for the last Republican primaries and you would have thought they were elections for some Christian parachurch org or something, the way people flacked their sunday school credentials on air. There is all the judgmentalism, crazy extrabiblical “rules,” and other horrible stuff, Lots of people still go to church, and Alabama is an engine driving what little is left of the “moral majority” crowd, which still believes the goal of government is to make people conform to good standards of behavior.
The racial thing..... you have to be there to really understand it. It is complex, and is neither totally horrible nor excusable either. There is an aloofness and separation driven by an assumption of cultural superiority by whites which permeates business, church, politics, education... and everything. That is ugly, for sure. Yet there is ALSO a bridge of genuine kindness, friendships and acts of shared humanity which are not trumpeted, but permeate life between black and white cultures, which are distinct and separated. Whites view blacks as degraded and parasitic, and blacks view whites as privileged and arrogant.... and both are true perspectives, imo. It is complex, with ugliness and beauty side by side.
OTOH.....
There is no real difference “prejudice” and “racism” in other parts of the USA. It just dresses up differently. Racism and prejudice are UNIVERSAL components of society, and are rooted (imo) in the innate pride and hatred of fallen men. “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” is always going to be with us. Pride, separationism, haughtiness, selfishness and greed are no more prominent in the South than anywhere else in the entire world. They just have a unique historical lens in Alabama. That lens is changing, and changing at its own pace. The change is bringing its own set of problems WITH the change. For the record, I moved OUT OF THE SOUTH before encountering the very first Klan rally I ever saw.
Alabama IS a “churched” culture. That bible belt is collapsing (there are more defections from Christianity in the deep south than any other place on the planet, at present), but is still strong. Those results are GOOD. It leads to a rejection of the insistence that we call gestational murder a “private choice” and scoffing at the horribly stupid blurring of gender lines as matter of public policy. There is also a fabric of commonly accepted morality (public and private) which serves as a glue to hold things together in little ways...., integrity in business, love for neighbors, and that weird personal kindess between races on a personal level that belies structural separation....., like I said, you have to be there to get it.
Part of public morality involves a rejection of the stupid and wicked idea that the way to deal with social inequalities is to demand the right of the state to steal money for some boondoggle in the name of “justice” That is, taxes are low, “services” are few, and freedom is more common. Right to self defense (gun ownership) is not challenged at all, and people are mostly left alone. Property taxes are some of the lowest in the nation, and housing (especially housing for the poor) is AFFORDABLE.
Alabama is a sportman’s paradise. Hunting, fishing, water sports, rock climbing, caving.... and other outdoor activities are insanely available. The northern half of the state, where the Smoky Mts die out, are some of the most beautiful terrain anywhere.
Finally, (not exhaustively), the area around Huntsville is like a little Raleigh, or Austin. Lots and lots of engineers, tech, and digital opportunities for employment. Companies love it because labor costs are lower, there is a highly skilled work force, and money goes further there.
I could go on and on, but you may wish to adjust your prejudices about Alabama. It is a good place, with good people.
What happened to the war on plastic?
We, and plastics, won
It would be hard to work for a company whose name you can’t pronounce. 8>)
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